Resilience Fund

Launching new Norwegian-funded civil-society resilience fund against organized crime

...Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime Oslo / Vienna / Geneva 15 January 2019   Global Initiative Against Transnational Org...

Posted on 15 Jan 2019

JIED

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development Vol.1 – Issue 1

JIED Vol 1 - Issue 1

... --- John Collins is the Editor-in-Chief of JIED...

Posted on 14 Jan 2019

Author(s): John Collins

UN-TOC Watch

Global conversation on AI in policing

...AI technology as a tool in enhanced law-enforcement practices needs to be controlled through a regulated ethical framework of deployment, so that use of cyber technology in policing does not infringe ...

Posted on 10 Jan 2019

Author(s): Summer Walker

JIED

JIED – Journal of Illicit Economies and Development

...The Journal of Illicit Economies and Development (JIED) is an open access Journal for evidence-driven research and policy commentary. It is an initiative of the LSE International Drug Policy Unit, in ...

Posted on 10 Jan 2019

Global Initiative

Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2018

...The 2018 UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons is the fourth of its kind mandated by the General Assembly through the 2010 United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons...

Posted on 07 Jan 2019

Global Initiative

What’s happening below deck?

...Fishing vessels are increasingly being used as instruments in transnational organized-crime activities. As is the case with legal global trade, a significant amount of illicit trade relies on modes of...

Posted on 07 Jan 2019

Author(s): Johan Bergenas

ENACT, Wildlife Watch

China ban on ivory significant to environmental conservation

...Written by Joyce Kimani, a journalist sponsored under the ENACT programme partnership with Thomson Reuters. China’s ban on the ivory trade has given new hope to environmentalists campaigning agai...

Posted on 29 Dec 2018

UN-TOC Watch

Guns, pirates and charcoal

...A report from the Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group shows that Somalia remains a deeply fractured state, but doesn’t go far enough to suggest how to resolve the country’s underlying challenges....

Posted on 18 Dec 2018

Author(s): Katherine Petrich

Assassination Witness

Analyzing trends in targeted killings in Nigeria

Power, elitism and history

...This report analyzes the dynamics of targeted killings in the country using a specially designed dataset over the period 2000 to 2017. The report relays the highlights of this data through a d...

Posted on 13 Dec 2018

Author(s): Hilary Matfess